LoserQueen

Chapter 47 The Bet

Dugu Muyou turned a deaf ear to the old man and handed the herbs over to the mouth of Blood Fox at once. Instead of refusing, it gobbled up a large number of herbs with its great appetite. Surprisingly, its stomach remained the same. Meanwhile, it grew more energetic with its red fur sleeker.

Before long, the box went empty. Blood Fox burped with pleasure and went back to the Yuehua Diamond.

"I need to digest it." Blood Fox said through consciousness.

Dugu Muyou returned the empty box to the shelf. The old man kept glaring at her with his eyes bulging.

Dugu Muyou took out a scroll and said, "These are the materials I need. Lead me where they are."

The old man took over the scroll, only to see that it measured three feet with all sorts of materials. The dosage of the materials was not listed. The old man suddenly felt a sense of foreboding when he thought of the amount of herbs that Blood Fox ate.

"Miss Muyou, how much of each material do you need? There are so many materials listed on the scroll, which would already take me a long time to look for them. What's more, the warehouse is so large that I can be exhausted from walking around it. Why don't you sit and wait in front of the warehouse and let me prepare everything for you?"

"No, you shall just take me where the materials were placed."

The old man frowned, but he led her there anyway.

The first material listed on the scroll was named Branch with One Hundred Leaves, which was common and inexpensive with one thousand kilos in the warehouse. The old man led Dugu Muyou to a corner. There were more than one hundred large boxes.

"Here are the Branch with One Hundred Leaves." The old man opened a wooden box and attempted to get some with a sack. "Miss Muyou, how much would you like?"

Dugu Muyou was delighted. It took a lot of Branch with One Hundred Leaves to cultivate the Pill of Qi-Enriching, which was not so good as the Nine-Herb Pill of Qi-Enriching. But the Pill of Qi-Enriching was suitable for her as a beginner in dan cultivation. Luckily, the storage volume of Branch with One Hundred Leaves was enough for her to use.

"Please don't bother to weigh them," said Dugu Muyou.

The old man was puzzled at her words. But the next moment, all the hundreds of boxes were gone, taken by Dugu Muyou.

"This is..."

The old man was rendered quite speechless for quite a while.

"Let's go and look for the next material," said Dugu Muyou.

After two hours, the old man and the young girl walked out of the warehouse. Dugu Muyou felt refreshed as she had got all the materials she needed from the warehouse, while the old man walked in a homolateral way without being aware of it. The warehouse seemed much more spacious all of a sudden after her raid.

The old man was struck dumb and left alone. Dugu Muyou came to the Dan Cultivation Room, where common pills of the Dugu Family were almost from. As for some precious pills, the Dugu Family could only buy them from the black market and auctions.

A pharmaceutical boy about ten years old raced to Cultivator Chen with his short legs and said breathlessly, "Cultivator Chen, Miss Muyou is here."

Cultivator Chen, chief of the Dan Cultivation Room, who was playing with his long curled beard, asked the boy, "What's she coming for?"

"Well, she said she wanted to cultivate dan here."

Cultivator Chen suddenly burst into wild laughter, slapping his thigh and crying, "Ha-ha! It's so ridiculous that she should want to cultivate dan?"

As a noble dan cultivator, Cultivator Chen had always been extremely proud of his profession.

It was such a wonderful profession! As a dan cultivator at Level Four, he was employed by the Dugu Family at a high salary. With the countless valuable pills he had cultivated, everyone was respectful to him, including the Master.

And only people as intelligent as he could cultivate pills of high quality. As for Miss Muyou, she was really famed for her lack of talent. What kind of pills did she want to cultivate? If she failed to cultivate pills, would she burst out crying?

"Ha-ha, it's so ridiculous. Everyone wants to cultivate pills these days. Although this industry has a bright outlook, we shouldn't allow her to try to cultivate pills. She will waste lots of materials, which will make the Dugu Family bankrupt."

The wild laughter of Cultivator Chen lasted about 5 minutes. The pharmaceutical boy, standing opposite Cultivator Chen, kept winking at him, only to find that Cultivator Chen didn't notice at all. The pharmaceutical boy worked in vain.

Dugu Muyou stood behind Cultivator Chen and slapped him on the shoulder. She had heard his laughter the moment she came to the room.

"Who is it? It's really so funny, and I can't help laughing."

Dugu Muyou slapped on him again with more strength. Cultivator Chen turned around, quite annoyed. The moment he wanted to scold the person behind him, he saw Dugu Muyou.

"Well..."

Dugu Muyou smiled and said, "Please prepare a spare room for me to cultivate pills. As for whether I will bring the Dugus to ruin, it is none of your business."

"Miss Muyou, please don't leap in the dark. Although Master didn't ask me to do so in advance, I couldn't bring myself to see you continue to fail until all the materials are used up. Also, I can't bear to see you being overwhelmed by feelings of failure. How about this? You can give all the materials to me, and this time I will cultivate pills for you specially. You only need to share part of the pills with me. In this way, both of us can be satisfied."

Dugu Muyou skirted Cultivator Chen, who was still blathering on and on, and asked the pharmaceutical boy, "Where is the Dan Cultivation Room?"

The pharmaceutical boy pointed and Dugu Muyou went away without looking behind.

Cultivator Chen didn't expect that he together with all his words would be ignored instead of being appreciated. He swore and shouted, "Just wait and see. I assure you that she can never cultivate one single pill!"

Dugu Muyou was reaching the gate when she heard his words. She stopped, turned back to look at him, and said, "Why not have a bet since you are so sure?"

"Oh, on what?" Cultivator Chen said without thinking about it.

"If I succeed in cultivating five pills, you shall play a dog, crawling around and barking. Since you have such a loud voice, you surely can play it vividly."

"You! How dare you insult me!"

"Nope. I was just talking about the bet."

"OK, I'll bet on it, but with some limitations. If you fail to cultivate five pills on the first try, you shall also play a dog and crawl around, and nothing else!"

"It's a deal."

Dugu Muyou turned around and went into the Dan Cultivation Room. She was looking forward to the performance of Cultivator Chen in two hours!

Outside of the Dan Cultivation Room, the pharmaceutical boy was concerned after seeing the determination and confidence of Dugu Muyou. He asked Cultivator Chen, "Will it be all right? It seems that Miss Muyou had some adventure when she got missing last time. As a result, she changed a lot. Maybe she had learned some special skills."

Cultivator Chen wasn't concerned at all, still grinning. He waved and said, "No need to worry. It's never easy to cultivate pills. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so few dan cultivators. Miss Muyou has never tried cultivating pills before. Generally, one is bound to fail on the first try. Even excellent dan cultivators like me make no exception. Compared to your useless concern, you'd better keep an eye on her, in case she cheats by taking a pill from somewhere else and claims it to be cultivated by her, which would be the real trouble."

The pharmaceutical boy suddenly understood. So he left for the Dan Cultivation Room where Dugu Muyou was.

Cultivator Chen sat on the wooden armchair, slapping the arms of the armchair and saying, "Who's on duty? Come and clear some space for Miss Muyou to crawl! She won't be able to crawl at a crowded place, will she?"

Inside of the Dan Cultivation Room, a large furnace was placed above the fire, which was burning and baking the furnace.

Dugu Muyou had already taken out the materials she had brought. She added materials into the furnace from time to time according to the recipes for dan cultivation. Meanwhile, she was also controlling the degree of heating, because the temperature of fire really mattered. She chose a large furnace to accelerate the cultivation because she needed more pills. Also, she would become more adept in dan cultivation by doing so.

The fire cast light on her face and made it rosy. Despite the high temperature in the Dan Cultivation Room, Dugu Muyou seemed unaware of it and paid all her attention to the pills she was cultivating.

The pharmaceutical boy came to the door of the Dan Cultivation Room and saw the huge furnace inside at the first glance.

"She is using the largest furnace for her first cultivation. She is so stupid!"

The pharmaceutical boy thought in his mind and came to believe that Cultivator Chen really had greater odds.

The larger the furnace was, the harder it would be to control the fire. With a single careless move, the pills in the furnace would be ruined. All the materials would end up in vain no matter how many materials were put into the furnace. Therefore, beginners would usually use a smaller furnace to avoid wasting materials, and only those very skillful dan cultivators would use a large furnace to save time.

The pharmaceutical boy found a place, sat down, and kept staring at Dugu Muyou to make sure that she couldn't cheat.

After an hour, some white smoke rose from the furnace and shook the lid. The pills scented the Dan Cultivation Room, which marked its completion.

The pharmaceutical boy watching by couldn't believe it. There was no smell of burning. Had she succeeded?

Dugu Muyou blew the fire. At her wave, the lid of the furnace flew over and fell aside. She hit the furnace with her spiritual qi, and the furnace shook. Some brown pills flew out of the furnace. Dugu Muyou grabbed a large jade plate, and hundreds of pills fell on the plate with tinkling sounds.

"I have made those pills. Come and have a look." Dugu Muyou said to the pharmaceutical boy.

The boy came near her and became shocked with his eyes widely open. And he said, "How can this be possible?"

Dugu Muyou checked the pills on the plate and threw away the bad ones.

"As I have expected, several of them are bad on my first try." Dugu Muyou said, unsatisfied. She took out a bottle gourd and filled it with the pills.

"Several of them are bad..." Hearing those words, the pharmaceutical boy even wanted to roll his eyes.

When he was cultivating pills for the first time, he only got a lump of black dregs. He was hardly able to recognize what was within the furnace. No pill was cultivated, and the materials in the furnace were wasted. He wasn't sad about it because that also happened to all his fellows. However, at seeing the success of Dugu Muyou, the boy came to doubt himself. Was he really untalented? Should he give up cultivating pills and work as a cleaner?

Let alone the first try, he failed the following ones as well.

At that time, Cultivator Chen wandered unhurriedly to the door of the Dan Cultivation Room according to his estimation of the time.

He opened the door and said, "It's almost time. Miss Muyou, I have asked the servants to clean the floor, and your dress won't get dirty."